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Professor Samuel Henry Butcher, LL.D., lately Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, will give the first of his series of six lectures on "The Originality of Greece" in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock. His subject tonight will be "Greece and Israel." These lectures were provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane...
Professor Samuel Henry Butcher, LL.D., one of the most distinguished of English scholars, will deliver a course of six lectures on "The Originality of Greece" in Fogg Art Museum, beginning Monday, March 28. This series was provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane...
...Butcher, after graduating as Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medalist from Cambridge in 1873, was appointed lecturer at Oxford. Since 1882 he has been professor of Greek at Edinburgh. He has also served as a member of the Scottish Universities Commission and of the more recent Royal Commission on University Education in Ireland. As a writer, Dr. Butcher is well known for his prose translation, with Mr. Andrew Lang, of Homer's "Odyssey," for his volume of essays entitled "Some Aspects of Greek Genius" and for his more ambitious work, "Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine...
...first of the series of lectures provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane '81, will be given in the spring by Dr. S. H. Butcher, until, recently professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher's general subject will be on some topic connected with Greek literature, but the individual subjects of his six lectures have not yet been announced. The lectures will be given in the Fogg Lecture Room on the following dates: Monday, March 28; Thursday, March 31; Monday, April 4; Friday, April 8; Monday, April 11; and Thursday, April...
...Butcher received his university education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the Senior Classic and Chancellor's Medallist in 1873 and held a fellowship in 1874. He was later elected, without examination, to an Extraordinary Fellowship at University College. Oxford, where he remained as lecturer until 1882, when he accepted a professorship at Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher was a member of the Scottish universities commission from 1889 to 1896, and served on the royal commission on university education in Ireland in 1901. He is well-known in this country through his writings, which include a prose translation of the Odyssey...